

Poetry Day Ireland
Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce that Poetry Day Ireland 2025 will take place on Thursday, 1 May, 2025 with this year’s theme: May Day.
Submissions are now open to register Poetry Day Ireland events and apply for the Bright Ideas bursary, inviting individuals, groups, and organisations across the country to take part in this all-island celebration of poetry.
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Poem of the week
Lucy Brennan
A wave flounces over a rock,
folds and settles itself in a rush of silk.
Soon a corm in earth's womb will burst
and crack its frozen crust.
On a blue day you feel
the movement towards light,
when a fish pokes above water, when a hawk,
lean from winter pickings, broods over holes,
when you look down on matted leaves
and a sprout pushes through,
when you look out and dive on a seal's curve,
surface on a swallow's breast.
I stand with you among brown reeds
on the edge of the lake and watch two swans,
ice statues until a wing breaks free.